John Heim writes: > > At 12:21 PM 11/10/2002 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:01:35 -0500 > > >In recent years many of us have used an IBM software called ViaVoice with > >emacspeak. ViaVoice is no longer available > >officially from IBM, though copies can be found on the Internet. > >Increasingly, however, this older ViaVoice no longer works with newer > >Linux distributions. > > Janina, > > Would you expand on this please? I was planning on upgrading my Redhat > machine from 7.1 to 8.0 in order to keep up with what I am using at work. > Should I be afraid? No, I think "afraid" is the wrong term. You should just not expect to use ViaVoice any longer. Instead, compile and use flite and eflite with emacspeak and/or yasr, or Speakup with a hardware synth, or both or all three. What I have found is that ViaVoice seg faults under 8.0. I've seen this on at least three machines. I've sent a report to IBM on the chance that ViaVoice will be back. I believe it may come back with gnopernicus, but that's a tomorrow sort of thing. Meanwhile, I would certainly upgrade to 8.0 today. Just switch your software speech. http://eflite.sf.net will have all the pointers you need. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list